"Water" Flowing Uphill :: Physishow Uni Bonn

[theROBLOXboy2]

It works like a railgun!

[tryingnot]

the water is flowing down hill it is the elctro magnets on the side of the trough that are pulling the balls against the flow of the water.

[b33p3rz]

@tryingnot read the description, it's a salty solution affected by magnets, the water is actually flowing up, alas, it's electrified, notice the top comment "Touch the water :P"

[headchip26]

anyone else notice that the litttle balls hes throwing in seem to dassapear once they drop off the end?

[gibbo1112]

i would have said if you have a ratcheted surface heated to the leidenfrost temp of water is how it worked but ok...

[stick4000]

thats werad

[xDizziGamerz]

I think it was the Incans that first discovered this... that when you get a perfect angle water flows upwards

[GrumpSkull]

The entire building was built on a tilt to create this stunt.

[Shaddra666]

@GrumpSkull hahaha nice, i give this comment a 10 outta 10 :)

[pluessy]

Yeah it's something about the magnetic and electric force being put through the water molecules which creates a magnetism going up the angle.

Something like that anyway

[vlogboy209]

Its not water its a really long chain og molicules.

[MyTilted]

its simple they tilted the downhill so its uphill and stuff always fall downhill so..

[rockislife999]

@MyTilted So the water around it just chills at angle?

[MyTilted]

@rockislife999 Well you cant tilt all of it at once! its obvious!

[mjtunstall1976]

nice trick!! it is about the fielding!!

[NeverMind9132]

Man, what has the Super-Soaker engineering team been up to? Soon kids are going to be playing with water rail guns.

[hicarbut]

its a trap

[ChrisBclips]

WITCH CRAFT!!

BURN THE WITCH!!!!

[PudgeTrax]

TheTvelvethMonkey, Could this be used to cause water to flow through a pipe placed in the sea? Can it be done without the magnetic field and with the use of pressure?

Thanks in advance.

[PVK112]

@PudgeTrax: More than likely not. I'm no physics major but I'm pretty sure someone's thought of it before and it didn't work.

[TheUFOeffect]

@PudgeTrax: No, The magnetic field is one force, the current is another force and those 2 forces create a 3rd force perpendicular to both pushing the water.

[zerblin]

Two rails, powered, with water conductor. Here we have something like water rail gun :)

[omgf34fme]

I see jumper cables.

[carlover]

created by the ion wind ...

[benjorgensen1]

looks like ion charging of the water. see the wires and terminals at the top of the ramp?

[Jessewb]

..HAAAAXXX, lol /jk.



[WolfieTed]

Incy weincy spider hasn't got a fucking chance now! :D

[tolittletime]

@WolfieTed i thought he wanted to get up the drain though :P ha ha

[therealkeekah]

HAAAAX

[RhemStar]

optical illusion, i guess.

[InfiniteAppReviews]

@RhemStar its not, its all magnetism

[MaikeruX88]

putting power on it is CHEATING xD

cheaters..

[iablackops]

Wonder if a gravitational vortex generator could generate enough current to uphill its own water and still have a surplus of electricity...

[patrickakapapoo]

@iablackops That cannot ever happen. That would be a creation of energy. Impossible.

[InfiniteAppReviews]

@patrickakapapoo you can create energy by using a hand crank generator :)

[patrickakapapoo]

@InfiniteAppReviews No, you aren't technically "creating" energy, you are converting your energy into the machine.

[thekrushori]

@InfiniteAppReviews and i can chop up oxygen molecules at home with my desktop fan

[tucsondog]

So if enough current was applied, could one turn this into a water gun?

[MrCKiwi]

@tucsondog Yes, one could turn that into a water gun.

[h8redflip]

in Wanaka New Zealand, there is a puzzle museum, and they have an area there that everything (floor,walls, ceiling) is on an angle, so if you take a camera and hold it up as thought the room was straight, then film their water flowing thingy, it looking like the water is travelling up, because the whole room is on a slant, therefore the water is actually travelling normally lol, but your bent !! lol

[xtruma]

really imaginative and simple physics...could be beautiful as a ral-size piece of art on the outdoors... but inconvenient as well, as anything can get pulverized if getting in contact...ihihihiihhi humans turned water into lightning...ihihiiihih beware

[robojot]

lol

[BloodyCrusade]

the music remembers me at the pc game "freelancer" (the szene where the guys are analyzing the artifact).

this video is awesome and i woud like to see more....

[gennaman2bit]

It's freelancer, absolutely!

Where is Dr Quintaine?

Nice video :)

[BloodyCrusade]

cool. the story is so epic. they should make a second part (where they fly back to the earth for revenge and rebuild the sirius system)

[gennaman2bit]

eh, Microsoft buyed Digital Anvil, and... Game Over :-(

[BloodyCrusade]

m$ is so stupid STUPID. they could make a lot of money and i gues its not to late for an epic space-shooter (there arent much good shooters) so microsoft could bridge the gab in the market instead of finally switching off a competitor. they could continue with the story. restore the sirius sector, go back home to the earth to fight against the coalition. the fight of the rebellion against the corrupt system. there is so much wasted potential.

[gennaman2bit]

I agree with u, but... we're gone "a little bit" off topic  :) last msg 4 me about fl, no offences :)

[BloodyCrusade]

why did we go offtopic? first come the clever guys (in this video) and now we are talking about idiots (m$).

einstein says: two things are eternal: the universe and the human idiotism. but im not sure with the universe.

so its ONtopic^^

[meandmyevo]

it's like a reverse railgun.

[IamTristanC]

i think i get it, its just a really energy consuming way to move water uphill.

can you make a larger one and pint it straight up? might get a cool effects with different ways you position the rods on the side of the ramp

[ConnorWilsonG]

dare you to stick ur tongue in that

[vikingbush]

HA! lawl

[popyourcorn]

i would have assumed it was since water is a diomagnetic composite and a high powered magnet would draw water to it. maybe it is just the salt?

[awesomeideas]

It was explained in the info section. While water IS diamagnetic, it is an extremely weak effect.

[RaiderFade]

Egyptians made water run uphill naturally.

[GoDiMoNsTeR]

really? how?

[SunnyShawFilms]

how..

[RaiderFade]

Simple Egyptians made water run uphill by praying to their water god. And as you can see ever since man has tried to do it without help from higher power.

[seanbrockest]

LOL

[acmmaker]

touch the water:P

[theMMaI]

yep, thats gonna kill you, as he says theyre using 25A to power the effect and in a salt solution ;) touching might be not a good idea

[p0rnflak3]

nope thats not possible becouse you loose a bit energy all the time so its not enough topower the rail.

[theedman]

couldn't this be used as some sort of perpetual motion devise with the charge being powered by some sort of generator attached to the falling part of the water?

Or is that just nonsense

[gonepishing]

how are you generating the energy needed to move the water along the rails?

[niiidar]

No, I'm afraid that is not possible :(

It will take more energy to get it up to the top than it will create when falling back down.

Besides, generators are not 100 percent efficient.

[blank9870]

it would be amazing if that was a canal.

[Physhi]

Gravity: It's only a theory.

[blackbombs]

LOLWUT?

[Physhi]

Amazing, I got a thumbs down even though what I said was 100% true. Incredible.

[budsiskos]

would a similar effect be possible with salt disolved into water?

[54spiritedwill54]

Very cool!

[Gernsback]

it's basically like a rail gun

[TheBaconator7]

no, railguns use electromagnetic acceleration to launch projectiles at supersonic speeds.

so yeah, kinda

[maxyevs]

are you sure its not just taped and then played backwards?

[UnvocalBrevity]

If this were so that means the ball would have to leap from the water into his fingers on its own accord.

[maxyevs]

ah right, didnt realize that

[JayKeaton]

Should have made the sous canal out of this shit.

[Chubachus]

cool

[stiggy488]

koooool i have an idea hold a cup upside down and make the water flow up into it instead of down then try to drink it . its just an idea

[sam93d]

Stiggy, i really wouldnt recommend drinking this, is highly dangerous stuff, although it would be cool :)

[mothergarat2]

That happens to me all the time!!!! Like the v circle!

[Cokoholicar]

interestingly i got the similar idea without knowing about this and actually went to check if someone is exploring it already... oh well, another idea down the drain

[ozricus]

Or "up" the drain.

[Mybreathstinks]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahahahahahahahahaha>Hahah­aha Lol That's hilarious.

[foom5]

its the new mercedes engine

[speedaddict2008]

what happens if you touch the water? will you get an electric shock!?

[an97an]

No.

[RyuDarragh]

See the movie "Red October". Not sci-fi, is it..

[hapticz]

is good demo, will invite children to explore their natural curiosity and incline to learn more! viva MHD!

[hapticz]

MHD, US Navy has propulsion systems that are totally silent using this method. this technology has been known for 40 years, nothing new.

[ScepticalMisha]

yea in US Navy they use it as high tech, but here its a little show for kids...

[exugoareo]

it works like a gauss cannon, but with water, the japanese made a boat that ran on a magnetic engine

[dch050771]

"water" = not plain water. read the title.

[seanfinlay123456789]

its actually real water......

but its some sort of axction got to do with ice coz in ire land a river flows backwards on a slope and the hill beside works the same way if you turn off your car is goes backwards..

[djgiggscom]

it works if u have ur parking brake up too?? some wierd stuff

[jonnic2000]

lorentz force?

[Krisspychiken]

its not plain water... maybe some ferromagnetic solution.. water needs an ultra high amount of magnet to be moved

[KamakazieIdiot]

lol its actualy going downhill, all it is is an illusion

[jessemartijn]

lol it's not, they are not using water, the solution has a magnetic field applied to it, and when generating a magnetic field with the opposite pole, Like + and -, they are attracting the liquid to the place where they are creating it, it works like a magnet, but this is just simply a liquid one

[KamakazieIdiot]

ell they could build a power station from it then, lol a power free uphill pumping system. lol i was basing that on many roads where things appear to move uphil. this was on a related i thaught someone replicated the appearence. i should'v known better

[Justwannalogon]

What is the application? Did we learn anything from building this thing or was it just a toy to amuse you?

[hazard02]

It could lead to new and improved water pumps which have no moving parts, and are thus less susceptible to failure.

[Justwannalogon]

Ahh, this makes sense. Does that cost less money and energy though than conventional means? It seems hard to imagine our water being one day propelled through-out the world in this way. Still, very cool stuff.

[GalilxG3]

great explaination hazard02!

[blahdob]

awesome!

according to my research, this could make a hoverboard.... at a very very hot place.......

like venus.... YAY!

[redsox32394]

YAY!!!1

[neoshogun42]

what? explain

[blahdob]

on venus it would boil and be a gas, and then the magnet could make a cushion of gas underneath the melted remains of the board!

[neoshogun42]

ah if, IF it maintains its magnetic properties, but this isn't ferrofluid its an ionic compound and by no means does that mean that it is magnetic but I like how you apply stuff, that is a cool idea

[deepfishstick]

he didn't say it was magnetic. Theres a current passing through it perpendicular to the sides of the trough and a magnetic field perpendicular to the bottom. force = current cross Mfield. Because theres current flowing through the solution (its an electrolyte so no problems there) it is accelerated up the ramp XD.

[grandmasterflashmx]

i think its just a mini treadmill underneath the water so it looks like the ball is flowing up.

thats my theory

[DaDaDumDaDa]

take a look at the video description

[sigdhi]

WOW

[C20rules]

really cool

[matthew11174]

i think its because the platform is vibrating,ive tested something like that and it flows up

[willywilly1]

+ for you in my book

[iklintsov77]

how the f--k is this happening?

[Terr0c1ty]

e^x

[mortichro]

Positive and negative current flow makes the water go up up up... hail ions!!

[saxon308]

Yes, trees use the same system to carry water from the ground up to the top!

[DeLoreanGuy]

not quite

[saxon308]

fill me in then buddy,

[DeLoreanGuy]

that's not water, its an ionic solution.

The current provided by those alligator clips is creating a magnetic field between the panels... which is what's moving the solution.

There's some sort of non-conductive bottom panel which is at a slope, and is why the solution is rising up the hill.

[saxon308]

Thanx for the reply :)

[tarkata14]

You didn't really need him to answer that question. It says in the description,"The clue is that the liquid is a salt (coppersulfate) and the duct has a magnetic field applied to it" Read the description people. Please.

Cool Video!

[Fentanyl3]

Positive and negative CURRENT FLOW? ahh yeah, ok....

[WindandConfusion]

What is that and how does it work? (And why is "'water'" in quotes?)

[djd829]

It's not really water, take a look at the description

[r6rome]

Very cool!

[DaemonXI]

How do they do that?

[reibn]

with the lorentz-force. ask wikipedia :P

[Sharkface217]

cool